Bringing it back into line

Friday was a big day. My whole life changed for the better. I finally, after long last, got married! It was a fairly smallish event and everything generally went according to plan.

We were lucky enough to have some good weather and celebrate the day with family and close friends. It was fun. But of course there was the usual eating and drinking.

It's inevitable. So many social events revolve around food and drink. It's embedded within the culture and society nowadays. It doesn't have to be such a bad thing. Food and drink is so closely knit with culture and is such an enjoyable part of it.

The problem comes when you're actually trying to lose some weight. It just doesn't help at all! In fact it's a right pain! But in the end we have to come to the realisation...its not the food...its not the drink that is the problem. We're the one's making the decisions. No one else. We put the food in our mouths, we bring the pint glass to our lips, or in this case the champagne flute, the cocktail glass, the beer bottle, the shot glass.

But what guides our decisions? It's who we are. It's our identity. There's lots of different ways to say the same thing. Self-image, self-concept, identity, subconscious. I don't know whether there's actually much of a difference between all of these concepts or if they're all the same, but they're definitely pretty similar.

It's who we're being that makes the difference. It's all about becoming a different person to who we once were. Building new habits, beliefs and attitudes. Thinking of ourselves differently. Thinking of ourselves as someone completely different.

So where am I actually going with this. Well after a weekend of drinking and eating, or actually a few months of this i.e. the leaving drinks and the coming back to UK events, including birthdays and wedding related events, my weight has been yo-yoing. It goes up and comes back down, goes up and down.

After the weekend's shenanigans its back up. It's easy to panic and get all flustered when you see the scale weight but here's some tips to deal with the situation:

1. Relax- Realise its mainly water weight not fat and that you'll deal with it.

2. Get back to you plan - My plan is my usual fast and then for dinner a protein and vegetable meal

3. Get back into line - What the hell does this one mean?

Well it means remember who you are and what it's about. It's not about the weight, or numbers on a screen/scale. It's about who you are. It's ok to deviate sometimes but remember the person that you want to become and are. It's about being that person. Of course we need to change who we are so we deal with those social events better in the first place but generally speaking, its about getting back into line with the person we want to become, remember all the work we have done already and then make sure we get back to being that person and doing what that person does. The scale weight will change as a result of being that person and doing the things the person does.

The scales are a symptom not a cause. Keep that in mind and get back to who you are.